Collected from the Egyptian desert in March of 1846, the Helix desertorum specimen was sent to the British Museum, where scientists thought it had expired in transit. It was glued to a cardboard display card shortly after.
One day four years later, curators noticed something strange about their catatonic mollusk: the shell seemed to have moved from its glued position and a trail of discoloration followed it.
Archivists removed it from the card to give it a bath, with a suspicion the snail might have in fact been slumbering.
After just a few minutes of exposure to moisture, the snail’s head poked from its shell and surveyed its new home with four eye stalks.
As the snail adjusted to active life again, it became a minor celebrity and sat for a portrait by the museum’s zoological artist for inclusion in a book on mollusks, seen below:
Night Fury and Rider. When I uploaded my “Night Fury on a Cliff #4″ painting, I never expected it to blow up the way it did. It might be my most shared piece of art ever on tumblr, and of course I am super glad that it did so well! BUT… I was never really satisfied with the painting, so I decided to redo it now that I am much more confident about my digital art. I am pretty happy with how this turned out this time around!
Nice redraw! I love the motion going on in Toothless’ wings!
well i guess this is it 